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aetios 🔜 39C3🔻
aetios@sns.minovsky.space
doomscrolling is not activism
"don't look away" is a meaningless phrase. who are you benefiting by inundating yourself with misery porn?
DO something about things you care about. Go to a protest for something you believe in, if you can. Donate money to a cause if you have it to spare. Volunteer your time to help people if you have the energy. Write a letter to your political representatives if that's something you can do. These are meaningful ways to try to make change in the world.
And then? don't feel bad about insulating yourself from horrible news. Don't make yourself look at images that make you feel sick. Don't read endless things that depress you. Because frankly it gets harder to actually do the more you doomscroll. Reading constantly about things you can't change because they're happening at a systemic level or on the other side of the world is paralyzing. It makes you less able to help where you can.
I'm not saying be willfully ignorant. I'm not saying pretend horrible things aren't happening. I'm saying don't destroy your mental health going in-depth and cycling through horror after horror on your phone. I'm saying there is no virtue in making yourself experience other people's traumas because mere awareness is not activism. you inflicting suffering on yourself is not activism.
doomscrolling is literally sapping your energy and focus away from doing anything useful to help other people. you can burn yourself out without ever lifting a finger by exposing yourself to all the bad news in the world and who does that help? no one.
from: https://www.tumblr.com/jmtorres/732911211154472960/doomscrolling-is-not-activism
"don't look away" is a meaningless phrase. who are you benefiting by inundating yourself with misery porn?
DO something about things you care about. Go to a protest for something you believe in, if you can. Donate money to a cause if you have it to spare. Volunteer your time to help people if you have the energy. Write a letter to your political representatives if that's something you can do. These are meaningful ways to try to make change in the world.
And then? don't feel bad about insulating yourself from horrible news. Don't make yourself look at images that make you feel sick. Don't read endless things that depress you. Because frankly it gets harder to actually do the more you doomscroll. Reading constantly about things you can't change because they're happening at a systemic level or on the other side of the world is paralyzing. It makes you less able to help where you can.
I'm not saying be willfully ignorant. I'm not saying pretend horrible things aren't happening. I'm saying don't destroy your mental health going in-depth and cycling through horror after horror on your phone. I'm saying there is no virtue in making yourself experience other people's traumas because mere awareness is not activism. you inflicting suffering on yourself is not activism.
doomscrolling is literally sapping your energy and focus away from doing anything useful to help other people. you can burn yourself out without ever lifting a finger by exposing yourself to all the bad news in the world and who does that help? no one.
from: https://www.tumblr.com/jmtorres/732911211154472960/doomscrolling-is-not-activism
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xian@ak.kazuma.family
@aetios reminds me of a line in a Charta 77 song.
"Men att bara titta bort kan även det vara ett brott
Och tro man ser fastän man blundar
Och aldrig öppna munnen"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTJIJxFRp8E
"Men att bara titta bort kan även det vara ett brott
Och tro man ser fastän man blundar
Och aldrig öppna munnen"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTJIJxFRp8E
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aetios 🔜 39C3🔻
aetios@sns.minovsky.space
@xian I dont speak the stinky salmon language, what does it say 
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about activism
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who are you benefiting by inundating yourself with misery porn?
this is so real
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re: about activism
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@fiore its basically giving yourself admin trauma willingly
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aetios 🔜 39C3🔻
aetios@sns.minovsky.space
@kevinrns I'm surprised it works. I mean, it was just someone's ramble, so i'm also not surprised it works.
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@aetios I try to do things. I try to make LGBT safe spaces more visible when I can, like by editing OpenStreetMap to include them whenever I find one. It's so hard to find places that are welcoming to LGBT people though.
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